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Why Buffy Matters The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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ISBN-10: 1845110293

ISBN-13: 9781845110291

Edition: 2005 (Annotated)

Authors: Rhonda V. Wilcox

List price: $35.95
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"Rhonda Wilcox, a world authority on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens. This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought, a celebration of the series that she proposes as an aesthetic test case for television. Buffy will endure as art, she argues, because it explores television's possibilities for long-term construction and produces individual episodes that are powerful in their own right. She examines therefore the larger patterns that extend through many episodes: the hero myth; the imagery of light; naming symbolism; Spike, sex and redemption; the similarities between Buffy Summers and Harry…    
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Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 11/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Panorama
The Monsters of Teen Life
The Long Arc of Light and Dark
Naming and Identity
When Harry Met Buffy
Sex and Soul: Buffy, Spike, and Redemption
Exiting the Text and Globalization
Tight Focus
Love ("Surprise"/"Innocence")
Laughter ("The Zeppo")
Fear: ("Hush")
Poetry ("Restless")
Death ("The Body")
Song ("Once More, with Feeling")
Panorama
The Monsters of Teen Life
The Long Arc of Light and Dark
Naming and Identity
When Harry Met Buffy
Sex and Soul: Buffy, Spike, and Redemption
Exiting the Text and Globalization
Tight Focus
Love ("Surprise"/"Innocence")
Laughter ("The Zeppo")
Fear: ("Hush")
Poetry ("Restless")
Death ("The Body")
Song ("Once More, with Feeling")